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The Toq (pronounced “tok” as in "tick-tock") is a smartwatch developed by Qualcomm released as a proof of concept to OEMs and was released in limited quantities in December 2013. The Toq was first unveiled at Qualcomm's annual Uplinq event on September 4, 2013 in San Diego.
- Display
- Design
- Scissors Not Included
- Hardware
- Setup & Pairing
- Applets
- Notifications
First thing’s first: Mirasol isn’t new. This display technology has been considered a potential E-Ink successor for years, because it's a capacitive touchscreen technology with a superb refresh rate. It also uses practically no power compared to fancy LCD or OLED displays which bodes well for extended battery life. Considered as an E-Ink successor ...
The Toq is one heavy smartwatch. Let’s be real: it’s nowhere near like wearing a bag of flour on your wrist, but at 91g it’s much beefier than both the Pebble and Galaxy Gear. We found it awkward to wear most of the time, to be frank. READ: Samsung Galaxy Gear review The Toq is also ugly in our view. We were very aware that we had a massive black c...
The Toq has two rubber straps on both sides with a bulky metal clasp that connects the two. When you first remove the Toq from its box you'll have to custom-fit the strap to your wrist by cutting off any excess strap. How? With a pair of scissors. No joke. Qualcomm provides a "Fitting your Qualcomm Toq" video tutorialon how to do this, though it’s ...
Although a lot of the hardware points were touched upon above, there are a few other things worth mentioning. For instance: the Toq comes with a wireless charging stand. You can place the watch on it and power up wirelessly - as the name obviously suggests - although the accessory needs to be plugged into an power socket. Because Qualcomm is using ...
The Toq is compatible with any smartphone running Android 4.0.3 or higher. We paired the Toq with a Moto X via Bluetooth. To do this we also needed to download the free Toq smartphone app from the Google Play Store. The app has preference options for switching watch faces, customising watch menus, and managing notifications and applets. We found th...
Once we got the setup process finished the Toq immediately started vibrating. It notified us of new texts, emails, Twitter mentions, and more. The Toq doesn’t use apps though, so there's no software app store, instead it uses applets which are like minimal apps with minimal functionality. Among these we really liked being able to respond to texts b...
Toq also serves up notifications on weather information, battery life, Bluetooth connection status and such like. Notifications arrive via your Android phone which means your phone and the Toq will get the same notifications, and you will have to deal with duplicates all day, everyday. Most Toq-based notifications are just previews that won’t let y...
Dec 4, 2013 · Qualcomm's Toq smartwatch proves the long-awaited Mirasol display is worth it, and the watch itself is also fairly capable, but like other smartwatches, it's still too limited for most...
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- Jamie Lendino
Sep 4, 2013 · Qualcomm hopes app developers will get behind the Toq and update their applications to work with the smartwatch, plus the software is upgradeable so we could see new features in the future.
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- john.mccann@futurenet.com
Dec 11, 2013 · The Toq only supports Bluetooth 3.0, not 4.0, which is really strange — smartwatches are one of the most obvious use cases for Bluetooth Low Energy.
Dec 3, 2013 · Hands-on with the Qualcomm Toq smartwatch. It's got fancy new display technology and some really weird design decisions. Lee Hutchinson - 12/3/2013, 3:16 PM. 101. Ars received a review...
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